{"id":26828,"date":"2025-07-27T02:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T02:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26828\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T02:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T02:16:08","slug":"mystics-overcome-fourth-quarter-drought-to-defeat-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26828\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystics overcome fourth-quarter drought to defeat Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Shakira Austin had 14 points and 11 rebounds, Sug Sutton scored 13 points and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/washington-mystics\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"washington-mystics\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Mystics<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/seattle-storm\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"seattle-storm\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Storm<\/a> 69-58 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle, which endured a five-minute scoring drought to open the third quarter and trailed 60-45 entering the fourth, held Washington without a point for the first six minutes of the final quarter. The Storm&#8217;s 11-0 run had them within 60-56 with four minutes remaining in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Kiki Iriafen then made one free throw for Washington for a five-point lead and her layup with around two minutes left put the Mystics up 63-56. Brittney Sykes scored on two driving layups, leaving the Mystics in command 67-58 with 51 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The Mystics won by double digits despite scoring only nine points in the fourth quarter. They held the Storm under 15 points in each of the last three quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Nneka Ogwumike had 18 points, all in the first half for Seattle (15-11). Erica Wheeler scored 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle shot 33 per cent overall, made only five of 21 three-pointers and was outrebounded 44-28.<\/p>\n<p>Brittney Sykes and Sonia Citron had 11 points each for Washington (12-12). The Mystics shot 44 per cent and had 20 assists on 29 made baskets.<\/p>\n<p>Ogwumike scored 11 of Seattle&#8217;s first 13 points and finished the first quarter with 13 points as Seattle took a 21-16 lead.<\/p>\n<p>A mid-range jumper by Ezi Magbegor gave Seattle a 29-21 lead midway through the second quarter but Sutton scored seven points in a 14-2 run that put Washington ahead 35-31 with two-and-a-half minutes left in the half. The Mystics went on to lead 40-35 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Mystics host Phoenix on Sunday, and Storm play at Connecticut on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Shakira Austin had 14 points and 11 rebounds, Sug Sutton scored 13 points and the Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-26828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}